Pauline Hanson Is Now On The NBN Watchdog Committee. No, Really

Controversial One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is on the National Broadband Network (NBN) Committee. This is not a joke.

Last month, the Federal Government passed a motion to form a Joint Standing Committee for the NBN which will compose of 17 members from the House of Representatives and the Senate. The committee will act as a watchdog for the NBN and will report on the progress of the project to the Government.

The only thing we know about how One Nation feels about the NBN was when Hanson was spruiking a Queensland company that claims fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) and radio technology is better than what the NBN is using right now. I'll leave it up to readers to decide whether you think she's full of crap or not (you can read the coverage of the news here).

For now, we'll just have to wait and see what Hanson will do as part of the NBN Committee.

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